Word: hulbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MURDER THAT HAD EVERYTHING-Hulbert Footner-Harper ($2). Among thinly disguised members of Manhattan's café society, Lee Mapin, a snuff-taking amateur, solves the murder of a glamor girl's gigolo fiancé. Merits: humor and action. Fault: not too plausible...
...year, that is good news for her owner, big news for dairymen. Last week the American Jersey Cattle Club was celebrating the biggest news yet: a new world's butterfat champion. Six-year-old, 1,000-lb. Sybil Tessie Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced 995.9 lbs. in the same time. Proud Jersey...
...Gaiety Girls (Alexander Korda) is a fresh-as-a-daisy English musical. It has sparkling lines, a logical story and a great show of versatility by England's gay, lantern-jawed Jack Hulbert, who is a good song-&-dance man, a better actor. Opposite him, blonde, healthy-looking Patricia Ellis has a better role than Hollywood ever gave her, does better than she ever did in Hollywood...
Federal Judge Murray Hulbert and a Grade A jury heard notes of awe and amazement in Attorney Burns's voice as he made it clear that the Ringling tax tricks, exuberant, huge and clever, were worthy of the late great Phineas Taylor Barnum. The Government charged that many of the evasions were run of the mill failures to report full income from gate, concessions, dividends, stock manipulations and "false, fictitious and fraudulent" deductions for debts. Among the latter was one for $50,000 from the late Promoter George L. ("Tex") Rickard, allegedly subtracted twice. But in the centre ring...
University of Chicago Professors Sir William A. Craigie* and James R. Hulbert, editors of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, and their associates, who for twelve years have been working on separating U. S. English from English English (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936), were almost finished with the Bs last week. Issued by the University of Chicago Press was the third section of their dictionary, Blood and Thunder- Butterfly...